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Panel 5: Current Challenges to the Nonproliferation Regime

Challenges for the Existing Nonproliferation Regimes

Zhu Chenghu

Since the end of the Cold War, numerous armed conflicts and regional wars have produced an arms race at different levels that threaten existing non-proliferation regimes, such as the NPT and CTBT. Challenges to these regimes include regional wars, technological development, the unsatisfactory process of nuclear disarmament and the seemingly discriminatory nature of the existing arms control regimes and systems, and the undemocratic process of negotiation. Major actors, particularly the United States, need to take measures to address these issues if non-proliferation is to succeed.

Senior Colonel Zhu Chenghu is Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University.

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